The Dancer in Celebrity in the long 18th century: reputations, images, portraits in association with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Ƶ, Oxford
The Timetable at a glance
| Tuesday 15th | |
| 10:30 | Registration, Coffee, The Marble Hall |
| I: Keynote address: Haldane Room, Chair: Michael Burden | |
| 11:00 |
Shearer West, Humanities Division, University of Oxford ‘Portraiture and the Birth of Celebrity on the Eighteenth-Century Stage’ |
| II: Audiences and Signifiers - Haldane Room Chair: Michael Burden |
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| 12:00 |
Raf Geenens, University of Leuven ‘“Dance, like morality, is in the eye of the beholder”: Adam Smith on the role of the spectator’ |
| 12:30 |
Kristin Flieger Samuelian, George Mason University ‘Signification and the Dancing Body, 1760-1826’ |
| 13:00 | Lunch - The Buttery |
| III: Images, personalities - Haldane Room, Chair: Anne Daye | |
| 14:00 |
Keith Cavers, Independent scholar ‘New Finds: Old Friends - New Pictures; digging up Icons of the Dance’ |
| 14:30 |
Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University ‘Natural beauty or “Paint-painted”? Giovanna Baccelli by Thomas Gainsborough – 1782’ |
| 15:00 |
Helena Kazárová, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague ‘Unknown portraits of Salvatore Vigano in Bohemian Collections’ |
| 15:30 |
Iris Julia Bührle, Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris / Stuttgart University ‘Capturing the hovering sylph: Marie Taglioni’ |
| 16:00 | Tea - The Hall |
| IV: Hester Santlow - Haldane Room, Chair: Bruce Alan Brown | |
| 16:30 |
Moira Goff, Independent scholar ‘“Lovely in her countenance, delicate in her form”: The portraits of Hester Santlow (c.1693-1773)’ |
| 17:00 |
Marisa Iglesias, University of South Florida [Cancelled] ‘“Beauteous Wonder of a Different Kind”: Hester Santlow’s Celebrity Status’ |
| V: Dukes and dance - Haldane Room, Chair: Bruce Alan Brown | |
| 17:30 |
Jennifer Thorp, New College, University of Oxford ‘Celebrity patrons: the Montagu family and dance throughout the eighteenth century’ |
| 18:00 |
Anne Daye, TrinityLaban, London, and Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society ‘Some are born great: the Dukes of York as dance celebrities’ |
| 18:30 | Reception - The Private Dining Room |
| 19:00 | Dinner - The Buttery |
| Wednesday 16th | |
| 08:30 | Coffee and pastries for all delegates - The Hall |
| VI: Dancing in European Cities - Haldane Room, Chair: Jennifer Thorp | |
| 09:00 |
Uta Dorothea Sauer, Technische Universität Dresden 'The role of Dance in the Political Ballets at the Court of Dresden’ |
| 09:30 |
Petra Dotlačilová, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague ‘Jean-Georges Noverre and his luxurious “job application” to Warsaw’ |
| 10:00 |
Hanna Walsdorf, University of Leipzig ‘“Formeront le Bosquet”: Teenage Future Dance Icons on the Jesuit Stage in Paris’ |
| 10:30 |
Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music and Royal Ƶ of Music ‘“My agreeable acquaintance…Mrs Egerton …will laugh very heartily on recollecting the many happy days, and whimsical adventures which occurred that winter in dear Dublin”’ |
| 11:00 | Coffee - The Hall |
| VII: Sultans and Hornpipes - Haldane Room, Chair: Iris Julia Bührle | |
| 11:30 |
Adeline Mueller, New College, University of Oxford ‘A Peep into Mozart and Le Picq’s Serraglio (Milan, 1772): Noverre’s Tragic Reworking of a Comic Ballet’ |
| 12:00 |
Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex ‘The celebrated Miss Nancy Dawson and her hornpipe’ |
| 12:30 | Lunch - The Buttery |
| VIII: Circuses, Tumblers, and Hot Air - Haldane Room, Chair: Adeline Mueller | |
| 13:30 |
Monica Mattfeld, University of Kent, Canterbury ‘John Astley, the Equestrian Hero: Masculinity, Celebrity and the Equestrian Dancer’ |
| 14:00 |
Michael Burden, New College, University of Oxford ‘Tumbling images: Carlo Antonio Delpini at work’ |
| 14:30 |
Caitlyn Lehmann, Independent Scholar ‘Airy Delights: Ballet, Balloonmania and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century London’ |